Roger Mayville

Roger Mayville (6 January 1837-2 October 1920) was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1884 to 1892. He previously served as a Major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Roger Mayville was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on 6 January 1837 to a family of well-to-do cotton planters, and he studied to become a lawyer during the late 1850s. In 1861, just as he was about to set up his own legal practice, Virginia voted to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and Mayville enlisted in the Confederate States Army and was given the rank of Captain in Willard Lowndes' volunteer regiment. Mayville fought at the 1861 First Battle of Bull Run, after which he was rewarded with a promotion to Major. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, losing the use of his left leg after sustaining a critical bullet wound. He returned to Charlottesville, where he became a lawyer in the years following the American Civil War's end. In 1884, Mayville was elected to the House of Delegates as a Southern Democrat, and he championed the cause of rural whites while supporting efforts to disenfranchise African-Americans statewide. He retired from the House after eight years of service, and he died in Charlottesville in 1920 at the age of 83.